Every Locality Should Widely Distribute
the Comments in Liberation Daily on
October 5
(October 5, 1943)
1. On October 5 Liberation Daily published comments on the Eleventh
Congress of the Guomindang and the second session of the Third People’s
Political Council. When you have received them, in addition to running them in
the newspapers, you should print them in large quantities as booklets and
distribute them widely. In addition to educating cadres, these should be
distributed among the people in the big cities in Guomindang-controlled areas
and enemy-occupied areas. This document is also the Party’s general policy and a
summary of the current political situation.
2. Beginning October 6, Liberation Daily will temporarily stop publishing
articles aimed at exposing the Guomindang in order to demonstrate some
relaxation of tension. We will see whether the Guomindang has an inclination
toward a political resolution and toward alleviating the current political situation.
Correspondingly, beginning October 6 the New China News Agency and its local
branches will stop broadcasting all articles aimed at exposing the Guomindang.
But the local newspapers should continue to expose the Guomindang, and especially news of the anti-espionage struggle should constantly appear in the papers.
In the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, news of this kind should be carried
in the small local newspapers. Class education within the Party should be carried
out and should never stop.
Note

Note
Our source for this document is Mao Zedong xinwen gongzuo wenxuan, pp. 108–9, where it is reproduced
from the manuscript.